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Spoonbenders

(2017)
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Awards
2018 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee)
2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee)
2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee)

'As gripping as it is hilarious' Steven Rowley
'Funny and charming . . . magical' New York Times Book Review
'Hilarious' Guardian


Teddy, Maureen, Frankie, Irene and Buddy were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. Until, that is, the magic decided to disappear one night, live on national television.

We encounter this long-forgotten family two decades on, when grandson Matty, born long after the public fall from grace, discovers powers in himself - and thus realises his dispirited, dysfunctional family members are actually amazing after all.

Spoonbenders is the legacy and legend of the Telemachus family, across three generations of big personalities and socially inept recluses: each with a tarnished reputation, each now tasked with finding redemption...


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"A joyfully weird book about psychics and con artists, and the marvels that result from the intermarriage of the two." - Charlie Jane Anders

"There is real magic in Daryl Gregory's gleeful story of the Amazing Telemachus Family." - Jade Chang

"Spoonbenders is brilliant. With the Telemachus clan, Daryl Gregory has created a family that is part J.D. Salinger and part David Foster Wallace." - Christopher Farnsworth

"Spoonbenders is X-Files meets The Sopranos with a real, roaring heart." - Robin Sloan

"Spoonbenders is hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity." - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

"A big generational family story of longing, nostalgia and humor. The writing is so deftly charming and yet deeply felt. Spoonbenders is entertaining and moving - a perfect summer read." - Charles Yu


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